who am I to be ...........

Some days, I ask myself...

Who am I....

to be a messenger of Peace, or Love, or Service...

I have no special credentials...I am not famous...or powerful......

 

Then my higher inner voice asks.......

 

Why not you?

 

Many prophets and messengers have come from humble lives, awakened to a life of Service..

who's very existence has changed the course of history...

and I am but a mirror for others....

 

For God,

For Christ,

For Buddha,

For Black Elk,

for Mother Theresa,

For Dr Martin Luther King,

For Gandhi,

For Nelson Mandela and many others....

 

Messengers....

Who in living their message have suffered ridicule, judgment,  and scrutiny....

and for some,  paid the ultimate price.....

with their life......

 

It may have silenced their words, but it did not stop the ripple that their existence created..

 

And I have the power to pick up the torch and light the way...to light that fire within myself and others.

 

So I ask you....

 

Why not you?.........

 

Here is the thought for the day

 

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that frightens us.

We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?'

Actually, who are you not to be?

Your are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

From her book: Return To Love

Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber

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